Global Movement

Join the Youth Climate Movement as we stand in solidarity and showcase the breadth and depth of the Global Climate Justice Movement. Young people across the globe are leading a Power Shift Movement — addressing the climate crises by standing up to corporate polluters while lifting up community and campus based solutions.

The dirty energy industry is jeopardizing the future of young people, indigenous peoples, people in developing nations, and people in small island states, but there are young people across the planet who are passionate and committed to stabilizing the climate, restoring democracy and upholding human rights.

COP 17 in Durban will be the first international space we will feature. Follow us here at WeArePowerShift-Global Edition to determine whether COP17 will be a Conference of Polluters (COP) or a Conference of the People (COP).

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The challenge of our generation is to find solutions to climate disruption. As youth we have the task of ensuring that future generations can live in a just and sustainable world. We know that right now communities around the world are being affected by coal plants, gas pipelines and other impacts on the environment and human health. We are the voices of our home country, our communities, and a generation. Because of this we have traveled to Warsaw to call communities across the globe to build capacity and find local solutions to mitigate negative environmental impacts.

Reposted from Waging Nonviolence. To read the original post, click here.

On Sunday I am going to be traveling to Istanbul for Global Power Shift, a climate justice summit that will be bringing people together from around the world for a week of skill-building, strategizing and movement visioning for the next stages in the fight against climate change. At the end of the week, we will bring what we learned back home and organize on the local level by planning regional and national gatherings. Over the coming months and years, the idea is that the Global Power Shift participants will work in local campaigns that are part of a global movement for environmental and climate justice.

Written by Hannah Bristol, SustainUS Agents of Change Delegate at the COP18 UN Climate Change Conference and student at Middlebury College. Cross-posted from the SustainUS Agents of Change Blog

Will this be your climate legacy? This is the question we ask our leaders as they take part in two weeks of climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar.

In the past year, we’ve seen droughts, floods, wildfires and hurricanes across the globe. We saw Sandy leave a path of destruction up along the coast, from the Caribbean to New York City. We saw heat records shattered, making 2012 the 9th hottest year on record. We saw an unprecedented loss of ice cover on the North Pole. And just this week, a report was released finding the Arctic permafrost is melting even more quickly than predicted, releasing more greenhouse gases.

The world that my generation lives in is shaping up to be dramatically different than the world that humans have inhabited for the last 10,000 years. The world in which we’ve grown up is dramatically different even from the world in which our parents grew up. Climate change is not an issue for future generations. It’s not even just an issue for my generation's children. Climate change is an issue for my generation. We are facing the impacts today.